European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 24, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 Industry predicts higher costs crop Spray curb assailed harr1sburg, Paap Consumers will feel the squeeze As the Federal govern ment tightens its grip on chemicals Al Lowed for use on crops according to Industry specialists. They predict that vegetable prices will increase Quality will decline some Spe Fialty foods May become scarce and gardeners and specially crop growers will be hard hit. At Issue is an environmental Protection Agency regulation that requires registration of pesticides and labels that carry a list of specific crops on which a pesticide May be used. Extensive testing is a part of the requirement. Companies would rather leave a minor crop off the Label than spend thousands of dollars testing the effect of a pesticide that has limited be talked to some chemical Compa Nies that said if it s not one of the major crops like Cotton Corn soybean or Small grains they won t touch it with a 10-foot pole said or. Winand Hock a pesticides specialist at Pennsylvania state University the effect will be on the Homeowner and the Small specially crop Farmer not the Corn he also said Mush rooms strawberries blueberries handsome varieties of apricots and nectarines could become expensive or scarce. We definitely have fewer choices of pesticides said de Hopkins a Pennsyl Vania vegetable grower. Some companies just discontinued their products altogether. In the future certain minor crops things like Basil herbs horse radishes parsnips or Leek won t be grown. Thereon t be a no. 1 Quality crop. The con Public pressure spurs pledge to test laetrile Morristown. . A the National cancer Institute is planning to lest laetrile in response to mounting pressure by persons who think the controversial substance can cure cancer it was reported sunday. The Public is obviously wrapped up in laetrile said Sci research director or. Vincent Devila. I am personally Willingto test i think it s a fraud but i believe we have reason to conduct such a test said Devita in an interview with the daily record of Morristown. Devita said he has told the food and drug administration his office will seek approval for the first controlled clinical trial of laetrile which has been banned bythe Federal government. The testing apparently is in response to increased Black marketing of laetrile an pressure on state Legislatures to legalize the substance derived from peach and Apricot pits. Laetrile is Legal in Canada and Mexico while state Legislatures in Alaska. Indiana. Nevada Florida and Arizona have approved its the substance was banned in the interstate Market in the . By the Fra be cause it has not been proven effective As a cancer Bill to legalize administration of laetrile in new Jersey was cleared by the 11 reservists hit by lightning Rome. A. Up it lit up like Day Light and then people started hollering said one of 11 Marine corps reservists hospitalized following a Freak lightning Acci Dent during a training lightning struck a Hill about 10 Miles from Rome where 35 reservists were doing night defensive drills saturday night. Charles Shell of Johnson City term., one of nine reservists who remained in the Hospital sunday said he was under his poncho trying to keep dry when the sky lit up. People started hollering and wanting said reservists were listed in satisfactory condition sunday and one was listed As fair at Floyd county Hospital. Two others already had been . Roy Carter instructor of co l and Leader of the 150 reservists said nobody was to blame it was an act of the lightning was apparently picked up by radio communications equipment. State Assembly s health. Institution and welfare committee last week. A spokesman at the Sci Headquarters in Bethesda. Md., said the testing is in the preliminary planning he said the tests Are being discussed with Fra and Independent medical experts. Sumer will either Lake the cabbage with a Hole in the Leaf or go he said. After Epa banned the use of the Pesti cide Dot Boyd Martz. A greenhouse Tomato grower in North Central Pennsylva Nia turned to a More expensive alternative. We re using a Gas an extremely dangerous material on the White Fly. The Fly lays its eggs for 21 Days and Dot had a residual effect of 30 Days and took care of the Martz we have to Spray every three weeks. The material costs $200 a gallon and we use a gallon every time we the consumer foots the Bill he said. We can Only absorb so much. If the con Sumer wants to pay the Cost he can have any environmental Rogu latinas he wants Mertz consumer is paying through the nose said Harry Katz president of Elco manufacturing a Small pesticide formula Tor in Pittsburgh. Chlor Datie Cost $1.75 a quart and 15 months later it costs $7.50 a quart if you can get it at say it reflects the hundreds of thousands in Legal fees that chemical companies spent to have Epa allow them to use it at All he said. Epa staffer Bob Kuykendall conceded that some crops have slipped through the cracks when pesticides arc registered for certain limited uses. But he said i a is trying to develop a system that would permit the use of a single pesticide on a group of related crops such As Leafy Green vegetables. Travelling at High Speed a chartered helicopter begins lilting motorcycles from the muck of the Cen trial Utah desert after a week of heavy rain left the machines unable to leave the site of the Cherry Creek desert race. Only 38 cyclists finished the race while 50 machines Here stuck far Days until evacuated by air. Up photo vets Gays women picket . Washington up women homosexuals and War veterans demonstrate around the White House sunday but presi Dent Carter missed All of them. The National organization for women picketed for the equal rights amendment Gay rights activists held a save our Chil Dren from Anita Bryant rally and Veter ans of foreign wars demonstrated for an accounting of servicemen still believed missing in Southeast Asia. Carter delivering the commencement speech at the University of notre Dame was not around for the rallies. Now was seeking More White mouse support for the Era. Carter favors the amendment and has urged state Legisla Tures to approve it but now said the pres ident s phone Calls to legislators just prior to Era votes were not enough. Vets move out now police said the equal rights group left the Street in front of the White House when More than Iso veterans their wives and children began picketing with american flags demanding a full accounting for the 1,300 men they believe Are still missing in uniformed veterans were from at least three slates new York Pennsylva Nia and administration has Given away All our Trump cards Given the vietnamese Money Trade and support for admission to the United nations while All we got was their word said Tom Kaiser a Long Island n.y., Veteran. Vet s father pickets your children arc your responsibility especially when they Are in difficulty said George Brooks of Newburgh n.y., father of a Navy Pilot missing for sewn years. Meanwhile across the Street from the White House in Lafayette Park some 120 Gay rights supporters reclined on the Grassin Balmy 84-degree Sunshine. Congress shall make no Law abridging our god Given and constitutional rights neither shall Anita said Woody tee. President of the 60,000-member Illi Nois education association. Dod can t Trace $20 billion lawmaker says Washington up Hep. Michael Harrington d-mass., said sunday the Pentagon does not know where More than $20 billion of the Money earmarked for buying aircraft ships and weapons is being spent. Harrington said a study made for the Northeast Midwest congressional coalition showed the defense department do snot know where the Money goes because it keeps track Only of awards to prime con tractors and does not follow up on awards to Lack of records Harrington said makes it difficult to determine whether subcontractors Are complying with various Federal regulations. He said the study was made at the re quest of reps. Don Mitchell. R-n.y., and Bob Traxler a Mich. Who head the group s military installations task express train hits cattle Berlin up an express train slowed into a Herd of cattle crossing tracks near Dessau the East German news Agency reported the engine jumped to derails after killing several cows. The Engi Neer and passengers escaped unhurt
